Rosa laevigata

The rose tree of Cherokees ( Rosa laevigata ) is a species of Rosier originating in the south of the China and of Taiwan, Laos and Vietnam.

It is the single species constituting the section of the Laevigatae sub-genus Eurosa .

Synonymous: Rosa cherokeensis Donn ex Small.

Description

It is a climbing shrub with persistent sheets. Its sarmentous stems, provided with broad pivots, can cling in the other shrubs and small trees and rise with heights going up to ten meters.

The Sheet S, from 3 to 10 cm length, generally have three leaflets only, sometimes five. These leaflets are glabrous, of a shining green shining.

The Fleur S, from 6 to 10 cm cm of diameter, with the petals of an immaculate white and yellow cheesecloths, are very scented. They are followed of Cynorrhodon S red shining and thorn-bush, from 2 to 4 cm in diameter. The floral stalks are also very thorny.

Use and symbolic system

The species was introduced towards 1780 into the south of the the United States where it is quickly naturalized, and where it received the name of “rose tree of Cherokees”.

It became the official flower of the Georgia. The flower is for always related to the Piste of the Tears and its petals represent the tears of the women poured for the period of misfortune and sorrow throughout the deportation since the ancestral ground of the Cherokee to strong American, of which that of Gilmer among others. The gilded center of the flower symbolizes the gold taken with the tribe of Cherokee.

hybrids of Rosa lævigata

Rosa X anémonoides ( Rosa lævigata X Rosa X odorata ), pink anemone or “Pink Cherokees”
Rosa X anémonoides “Cleaned”, pink dark
“Cooper' S Burmese” with flowers white ivory
“Sylver Moon” ( Rosa lævigata X an hybrid of Rosa wichuriana ), liana with large semi-double white flowers

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